Tropical Storm Case Study MEDC
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- Created on: 21-02-16 19:30
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- Tropical Storm Case Study MEDC
- Primary Impacts
- 1800+ people killed
- 300 000 houses destroyed
- main route out of New Orleans closed
- Coastal habitats damaged
- 3 million people without electricty
- Background Info
- Hurricane Katrina
- New Orleans
- 29th August 2005
- Damage of $300 billion
- Reasons for severity of impacts
- have sophisticated monitoring system
- people were warned about the hurricane
- people were warned about the hurricane
- 70-80% evacuated before hurricane landed
- Control centers and stock supplies set up
- police, fire service, army rescued over 50 000 people
- flood defences failed
- have sophisticated monitoring system
- Secondary Impacts
- 10 000s people made homeless
- 230 000 jobs lost
- water supplies polluted by sewage
- Primary Impacts
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